Reviews (page 9 of 9)
It sounded like I expected it to sound. Generally hated it, but saved by "I wanna be your dog. 2 stars
Bit boring, not bad music though Favourite song- not right
Meh, nao achei nada de mais
Voices and instruments don't do it for me.
Not for me, dawg. But maybe if I was a cool, angsty person in the 60's, this would have been my vibe. Probs not tho, I'd be too scared.
Interesting - I hear a lot of early 60's "garage rock" as well as "proto-punk" as some describe it. It's a little harsh for my tastes right now, though. Some of the songs are pretty lame, IMO.
This album for some reason feels like it’s somewhere between The Troggs and The Rolling Stones. Sometimes it get a little more Troggs and although there are some high points on the album, I didn’t really love it. A lot of the songs sound the same (1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog, Little Doll) and the album feels longer than it is. 1969 is pretty good even though it’s really simple. Little Doll is just too much of the same melody. We Will Fall is different and sort of a nice break but it feels like an interlude and is 10 minutes long which is WAY too long. Real Cool Time is another of my least favorite songs because it just sounds messy and it’s kind of annoying imo. I do like the vocals on the album for the most part though and some parts are pretty good so I don’t hate it but I most likely won’t revisit it. Favorite song: 1969 Least Favorite Songs: We Will Fall, Real Cool Time Strong 4/10
Not really my thing.
Wasn’t expecting _Stooges_ to be so psychedelic. _We Will Fall_ is too long.
Actually pretty weak in hindsight. Some good tracks but it's so basic
Dont get the hype
Punk. Bastante coñazo.
This is a product of its time. Raw, high energy... also lots of distortion, effects and then some breaks for psychedelic interludes. Respect, but no need to listen to again.
Meh, not my cup of tea.
Bleh.
Starts incredibly strong but peters out starting with that 10-minute Indian jam. Knowing where they go next, you're really ready to get there fast.
Alright, didn't really enjoy it
Some high points, but it really gets bogged down by the chanting and stuff.
I know this is pretty early for I guess what they'd call proto-punk but honestly it's pretty crap. if these songs turned up on an album today it'd be laughed out of existence. is it seriously true that we couldn't have all those cool punk bands without this? no one's exactly standing on the shoulders of giants here. 2/5 cause there's a slight chance that without it I'd never have heard NOFX.
I thoroughly dislike Iggy pop
I found this surprisingly mind-numbingly boring
This was close to unbearable
#88 Some of the most uninspired and lazy lyrics I've ever heard. The music itself is just poorly played noise. It made total sense when I saw this was produced by John Cale just one year after he shat out the equally abrasive White Light/ White Heat. Feels like a sequel to that mess of an album. Best song: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Punk war nie meins; lieber Iggy als Stooges
mi mama me pido q lo sacara sjsjaja
It's like listening to a fifth year high school music project
C'est enfin le dernier album avec Iggy Pop ! Je n'apprécie pas sa façon de chanter, que ce soit dans ses albums solos ou en groupe dans les Stooges. Ce dernier album ne fait pas exception, il ne mérite pas une meilleure note. En fait il en mérite même une moins bonne, 'We will Fall' est un des plus mauvais morceau de ce groupe ... =>1/5
nope
That was... actually fucking terrible! I honestly thought it would get better after the audio-assault that was the long track, but no it defied all odds and continued on its self-destructing course. The only positive was that it's length; only 35mins of suffering.
Repetitive sounds, I simply cannot listen to
Starting nice but from song three it tanks. What is going on with we will fall…?
I never really liked anything Iggy Pop related. This was not enjoyable for me at all.
I don’t understand how this made the list. Uninteresting, to say the least. 25SEP2026 EDIT: Giving it a re-listen. The ten minute song was unnecessary, and yes I listened to the full 10 minutes! Imma have to stick my initial rating of 1 due to my unchanged feelings toward this album.
On the second song - I don’t like it We will fall has got to be one of the worst pieces of music I have ever had the misfortune of hearing No fun slightly redeemed this album but I still have lots of hate for the whole thing. The amount of relief I felt when it ended is immeasurable
I've heard a smattering of songs from Iggy Pop and the Stooges that I like, but none of them are on this album. I'm sure that this album was an important influence on Punk in the 70s, but this didn't do much for me at all. I Wanna Be Your Dog is starred in Apple Music, but it definitely wasn't the top track for me. I'm not sure I could even pick a top track... it would be more like less tiresome than others. We Will Fall felt like it was an hour long.
this was just plain boring to me, I couldn't wait to be done with it.
It was a painful listen So much electric guitar and repetitive ideas
This was painful to get through. We Will Fall might be one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Very annoying and uninspired.
I didn't listen to anything all the way through, and still somehow these 8 tracks felt like 40. Wildly unenjoyable lyrically and musically. If this is supposed to be anti-music, it's an overwhelming success. Boring, repetitive instrumentation and 3rd grade imitation of lyric writing. I came into this album with a lot of positivity about its possibilities, and was immediately knocked on my ass with 300 declarations about what year it was when this was recorded. Terribly disappointing ⭐.5
Not the best thing out of 1969, ill say that.
So... in order to meet their record label's minimum requirements, these guys stuffed this album with last-minute filler (including a blatantly overlong chant that takes up a third of the runtime), and this is somehow a must hear experience? Yeah. No.
A hard pass on this.
I tried being open-minded but I do not like this album at all. I’m a fan of rock and roll but this is just a lazy stupid mess.
One of the songs somewhere in the middle just caught me so off-guard that I am voting it a 1 out of principle. In reality I just didnt like the album, so it should have been a two, but that one song was too strange
I found the album so boring
Yo we are short on track length "Just put in 10 minutes of chanting for track 3 to comprise 1/3 of the album length." Ok
not good
Iggy Pop is overrated trash. I would zero star the shit out of this if I could.
This is tiresome posturing presenting itself as serious pop music. I wanna be your dog is silly and the rest is equally as daft but without the attempt at humour.
Top albums I didn't need to hear before I die but I did anyway just to do the task. I was happy about the fact that I didn't know the band and now I have to pretend I don't know this.
Awful singing and poorly executed cultural appropriation of South Asian music. Turned it off several times.
Not bad, but just wasn't feeling it.
This cover is so serious. And the album doubly so. Not interested.
1/7: "I Wanna Be your Dog" - Kind of boring. Just not catching my attention. 2/7: "We Will Fall" is absolutely awful. It just draaaaaags and goes on for 10 minutes basically in a chant. I'm now dreading having to listen to the rest of the album. Not awful in the way I can ignore. Awful in a way that it forces you to pay attention to it and watch the progress bar steadily progress to relief by ending this atrocity. 3/7: "No Fun": This album some how got worse. Is this a torture device employed by the CIA? Is this my life now? 4/7: "Real Cool Time": The names of these are ironic right? Are all of the Stoogies fans suffering from Stockholm syndrome? 5/7: "Ann": My ears are bleeding, there is no end in sight. I am pain. There is no end. 6/7 "Not Right": If play this loud enough I will go deaf and this awful record wills top right? 7/25: "Little Doll": I just realized I clicked on the double disc version of this. To my wife and children I love them, this is my end.
man these are some bottom of the barrel rhyming schemes, I was hoping it would be just one or two songs but the entire thing is like that. Also it just insists on being present through some wall of noise complete with some bored sounding vocals. Put the guitar down, its already dead.
Didn't need another Stooges album. Figured their debut might have shed some light as to why they are on the list 3 times but that wasn't the case. Maybe this was iconic when it released but it didn't hold up for me on a current listen. I tried to like this but just couldn't. We Will Fall was an awful waste of 10 minutes and the rest of the album did little more to rein it in. Evidently I'm just not a big fan of early Iggy and/or his time with The Stooges. 0.95 stars
This is the epitome of monotony. We Will Fall was pure lethargy. Ann was meaningless noise. I can’t stand Iggy Pop, nor can I fathom how others find him enjoyable.
Not for me
Not my cup of tea
1/5 This album screams 60s rock music, but lacks heavily in quality. It's almost like a jack of all trades, but master of none. Once you acknowledge that this album is considered Proto-Punk, it will make a lot of sense that nearly all of Punk Rock sounds shit if everything that followed tried to copy this sound. Sad to have an album like this to close this week. Rating could've been 2/5, but it gets -1 because of Iggy Pop.
I've never listened to the Stooges before. It never appealed to me and I was sure I only knew them by name or by the forever shirtless Iggy Pop, but by track 2 I realized I did know them. ("I wanna be your dog") I can see why they are credited with early punk roots, abandoning a lot of the traditional rock n roll form or gimmicks. Although I hear it and can hear right away how melodically the title track still has roots in a blues 12 bar blue format it just manipulated. First listen I just thought the song was a little too long and the second track a little too short. The third track is 10 minutes of almost eastern new age chanting. I was over it within the first minute, I gave up by the half way mark. I can see how at the time Iggy Pop's vocals and willingness to push or at times abandon what was the dying stages of the early 60's rock form could be appealing. And I bet live it was even more so. Context is everything, but to me it's not very interesting. His vocals still synonymous of many rock singers of that era, a la Mick Jagger. Songs like Real Cool Time feel like total album filler. Some albums paved the way for other acts or for artists to evolve. And without the Stooges other artists might not exist. Rolling Stone put this at 388 of top 500 albums of all time. I wouldn't make the list at all for me, but that's what this experience is for. Maybe by the end of this I'll feel differently. Not an album I'd ever come back to, I just wanted it to end. 1 star
disgusting
Right off the bat, the song 1969 is stupid af. Maybe they're playing with some meta shit where they thought 1969 would suck so they made a sucky song, but I think it was just a flop of a song. I thought about changing what I was listening to like 10 times and remembered I had to get through it. There were some really nice sonic stretches, but the vocals and the lack of complexity or general intrigue in these songs was damning. 1/5
i am sorry but i literally cannot stand when people make bhajans and think they ate
1-2 not my style of rock
Not for me. 1/5
I'm not high enough to appreciate this. It just sounds like if the the Rolling Stones were high(er) and worse.
I suppose you’d have to have been there. Overrated.
Heroine's one hell of a drug, I guess.
pass
boooooring!!
ohhhh cheeee raaaam jaaaaaa…. ram cha ja rum
Just all around not good. My wife heard the third song (We Will Fall) and immediately said "why does it sound like I am in a satanic cult now with this music" and I cannot unhear that.
trash
Utterly forgettable. Not sure how this makes the list
Nah. Growly 60's rock
this sounds like shit from the prehistoric era YNN
Like the band more than his solo stuff
8 songs too many. Not my cup of tea.
No fun was no fun, Iggy stop plz
1969, more like 1984!!!!!! iggy slop
Iggy Stop back at it again with the worst music of all time!! At least the production quality wasn't unlistenable like Raw Power this time. 1 or 1.5
gitarren ok, aber was ist da sonst noch?!
The Good: Iggy The Bad: Iggy in 1969 The Ugly: supposed punk… I don’t much care for punk music in general, and can not understand why I’ve had to listen to this album seeing as there is much better product to listen to from that era. So shoot me for giving this album a 1* for the simple reason that I felt like skipping each song after listening to it for more than 15 seconds...
MEH
not for me
I can't tell who the biggest "Stooge" is: me for listening to this album, the band for making this album, or the record company for producing this album. Maybe it's able to be more appreciated within the context of when it was released, but I think this album is horrible frankly
No music, just noise
I really hated We Will Fall and was then fed up with the whole album and refused to give it the benefit of the doubt at any other point
In my opinion this music was too simple, too repetitive and not enough soul in it Just the most basic cookie cutter songs and chord progressions 1/2**, wouldn’t listen again and nothing stood out
Notable only for its place between rock and punk, and for introducing Iggy Pop in such an explosive fashion. Imagining myself as a listener in 1969, I’d be completely taken aback by the viciousness of the production while recognizing themes that, today, are tired and loathsome — almost every track is about some girl or woman, or spending the night with a woman, or drugs. So late 60s, but angry and somewhat whiny rather than purely hedonistic. As a listener today, it fails to capture attention as much as derision, but such is the case for all pieces of art outside their time. What’s more unforgivable is that modern bands like The Strokes and White Stripes try so hard to recreate this sound, as some sort of homage. MOVE. ON. Won’t listen again but glad to have done so.
So my first thought was... shouldn't there only be 3 stooges? Then I remembered Shemp and spent some time pondering which one was Shemp. Then I listened to the album. I was expecting to enjoy it and found myself sorely disappointed. I don't think I'll ever revisit this one.
I just found it really boring. Sorry. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Stooges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.
Thanks for the opportunity. Been there, listened to that. I can see where folks would love to see the history of artists and how they came from space/place/time/occasion. This is one for them, not for me. 1 star.
schlecht. so schlecht. einfach gar nix. Eher 0/5 Sterne!
I'm pretty done with the Stooges. Their music is just boring to me, and this one has that weird 7 min chanting song that really made this one drag.
Not my style.
Was not my favorite genre.
I thought I sorta liked Iggy Pop. Then I heard two of his albums on here and now I’m totally fucking out. This is such a drag.
meh
This is an album. I can here how it inspired but honestly this album is empty in itself. The most notable thing about this album is the the year it came out.
Guitarist plays the guitar like how a car plays a car crash
didnt like it, the mixes were bad. -A
Mehhh, not even the drug abuse of the 60s made this good
not much to say
This album was rough almost stopped after song two. I would be happy if I don’t hear them again
Ähmmm...nein nicht mein Geschmack. Am Anfang war ich geschockt von der Länge des Albums, aber ich hab es in der Hälfte der Zeit durchgehört, weil ich oft geskipped habe. Waren ja auch viele Versionen der gleichen Songs... Die Art zu Singen mochte ich auch irgendwie nicht...idk
There was nothing really special about. No song really catched my attention attention. And the guitar was a bit annoying sometimes.
I really just did not like this much. It wasn’t cohesive and more than one song was super weird. I couldn’t get through it.
shit from a butt how this got into the top 1001 albums idk, must just be nostalgia cos this sucks man.. the melodies itself are nice enough, but the singing is atrocious he sounds squeaky and whiny, like hes purposely singing to annoy you was a hard listen
Did not like.
This was terrible
gritty yet muted boring droning rock-punk. like drinking a lukewarm flat red bull.
Not a fan of Punk
Was not a fan
Horrible
Not my favorite... a little self-absorbed.
Terrible.
1,5 and the half is for a 1969 and its guitar sound, I don't like the vocals, I don't like the monotony, I don't like it at all, one of the worst albums generated even though it's the first 1 star
Interesting one. It sounds like a few guys who have just heard velvet underground, and are bluffing their way to record an album. It doesn't match VU or Doors by a long way. We will fall: What were they thinking. pretentious gobbledeygook. John Cale influence and as one reviewer called it - padding. Lyrically these fellows didnt stretch themselves!!! Listening to some of their other stuff I'm not sure they had the ability. However all said, it is ahead of it's time and inspired alot of music I love. Great idea but very weak in parts. Cover art: generic atyle photo but it expresses some tension. Like the band logo. 2/5
Having never even heard of the stooges before, I began listening with an open mind. However, once the second song was finished, i realisd i had listened to their most played song and didn't even realised the song had changed... This album felt like the lyrics were there to bulk up the songs. We will fall especially highlights this, 10 minutes of random to make the album longer...
2 "We Will Fall" is so out of place wtf. 1 not a fan
Not my cup of tea, 1969 var ändå helt ok med dom andra var förjävliga
Didn’t care for this album. Just didn’t dig the sound much
Long rambling songs. The only one that had any kind of order I think I’ve heard on a car commercial. I did not care for this.
pas mon style du tout DNF
Honestly the first song was alright, then the album just kept going and sounding the same. And it wasn't a good "same" sound. This music is not for me, would rather listen to my son's musical toys on repeat.
Repetitive, boring, no singing melodies.
Frankly I have no interest in punk rock, so I listened to the first few songs and called it a day. This isn't a knock on the inventiveness of the band, or any of that, I just genuinely don't care about punk, or old rock for that matter
Did not like it
Eh, not for me. The first track was ok, the second track was too repetitive, and the third track was...?! Then the rest was just blah.
Rable. Noise. Exception: 'I wanna be your Dog'
not a huge fan of the dad band jam rock feel but found one redeeming song !
Not my cup of tea
Noise
Boring :( Had higher hopes.
Horrible!!
just noise
I'm not generally a fan of British Invasion bands but the album was a pleasant listen
music typical of the times